On Sunday September 28, The Drunken Poet will be celebrating their eighth birthday by inviting some of their favourite musicians to grace the stage, with music from 2pm through til’ late. It’s totally free, like every other day of the year and sure to be a good time had by all.
Blue Eyes Cry
Award-winning Modern Blues Band, fronted by the brilliant voice in Iseula Hingano, backed by a cooking band led by her partner Nathan Brett (guitarist) other members are Cameron Smith (drums) and Stuart Prendergast (bass).
Blue Eyes Cry have performed at premier music venues and festivals, around Victoria and throughout Australia. Their debut album Sleepin’ Alone reached Number 1 on The Australian Blues and Roots Radio Charts for June and July in 2013 while earlier this year the band received two Chain Awards (Nationwide Blues Music Award) for Best New Talent and Song Of The Year.
Small Town Romance
Melbourne country band Small Town Romance are looking to get you dancing, or at least drunkenly swaying, to a swag of self penned ditties, country classics, and honky tonk heart-stoppers. With three part harmonies, button accordion and Telecaster, Small Town Romance will take you from South Australia to South Texas and back again.
Van Walker
Tasmanian artist Van Walker’s prolific song-writing has seen him be hailed a “cult figure” in his adopted Melbourne. He’s written over 500 songs across many genres, released six full-length albums between 2008 and 2010; a selection of which the Fuse Music Group realised in 2012 on the Underneath the Radar compilation, which was met with national critical acclaim.
Since then, Van has toured Europe twice, released two albums with the powerpop outfit The Livingstone Daisies (PBS Album of the Year 2013;4.5 Stars AGE EG, 2014) with Liz Stringer, Michael Barclay (Paul Kelly & Coloured Girls), and his brother Cal, recorded with Jeff Lang, Ezra Lee & Ash Davies as Van Walker’s Heartbreakers, formed Goatpiss Gasoline, a three-piece blues outfit in the vein of Hound Dog Taylor & the Houserockers, while also writing and performing as a member of the critically-acclaimed Vandemonian Lags stage production.
Jules Boult
His music and performance remains true to the blues tradition and his effortless demeanour has been closely linked with that of the genre’s legendary predecessors. Boult’s songs are imbued with a good sense of humour and this is reflected in both his lyrics and performance style, consequently, revealing his true character. This consummate musician’s sound is unyielding despite the fact that his performances remain graceful and without tension. Audiences are constantly captivated by Boult’s intimate and interactive performance style making him a must-see live musician.
Performing at The Drunken Poet regularly, Jules Boult brings his seasoned professionalism to the stage. He will be joined by various long-time collaborators. This promises to be an unforgettable performance that all music lovers will enjoy.
Roesy
Singer/songwriter and artist Roesy may now live in Melbourne Australia, but his journey began in Birr, Ireland, singing along to his father’s records as a boy. From an early age, his notebooks of sketches and words documented a fertile imagination and a sensitivity to the images, sights and sounds that surrounded him. Just as innocence inevitably turns to experience, Roesy moved on to writing lyrics which soon turned into songs once he taught himself to play guitar.
Roesy has just come off touring Australia with Joan As Policewoman and is back in the studio writing and recording his seventh album Wolf Counsel with producer Mark Stanley (Glen Hansard, John Murry, Gemma Hayes) due for his first Australian release in November.
His work shows a personal honesty and genuine open-heartedness that never sails close to vapid sentimentality or hollow romance. The finished product is refreshingly devoid of pretension or cliché́ and is best appreciated in a live setting.
